Insurrection. Period and end of story (for Ashli Babbit)

That's a good word for it. Will this affect the future of the GOP? Former WaPost columnist Harold Meyerson, the closest thing to an old labor liberal there before getting canned, says it will. I doubt it, and we've been hearing stuff like that for years, about demographic or other "destiny." Right, Gilberto Hinojosa? Here's my brief take on an attempted twosiderism jujitsu by Jonathan Turley. So far, Ted Cruz, 2024 Pander Bear over the electoral vote confirmation, is unrepentant.

We also know who the #MAGA insurrectionist was who got killed. Per San Diego's KUSI, she is Ashli Babbit. "Babbit," how appropriate of a name; I actually initially read it with a second "t" at the end, as in the Sinclair Lewis novel, which would only have been appropriate. Contra her husband, an insurrectionist is not a "great patriot." Also, if she was still in the Air Force, per this story, whether active duty or reserve, she clearly violated her military oath of service, among other things, and should have already been court-martialed. Contra KUSI, I extend no condolence to her family. Would I extend condolence to Peggy Shippen had Benedict Arnold been captured and hung? Per the last link, I feel condolence for her mother-in-law, but not totally, even there. If she really is that puzzled, she hasn't been paying attention to her daughter-in-law, or to Ashli's husband Aaron calling her a "great patriot" when she's been Trump-drunk months if not years.

All of this is just the surface of the iceberg.

In photos of the insurrectionists, I saw a number of people carrying placards that, at least indirectly, referencing things like Pizzagate. Besides the likes of two-faced, or two-anused, Tucker Carlson who a month ago said Sidney Powell had no evidence and today said it was "not their fault" to the insurrectionists, Pizzagate promoters like Jack Posobiec have blood on their hands, too.

Plus, the insurrectionists contributed to three other deaths inside the Capitol.

And, led to performance theater nutters like this:

This guy seen today with fur & horns is
Jake Angeli

His Facebook includes a photo of him shaking hands with Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney who hours before the violence kicked off today encouraged supporters to pursue a "trial by combat" pic.twitter.com/PrYOViZEVp

— ☇RiotWomenn☇ (@riotwomennn) January 7, 2021

What else is there to say? This:

And here’s “Antifa’s, non-Trump supporting” Jake Angeli speaking himself earlier in the year! 😂 pic.twitter.com/d4GvvEbXsC

— Rino (and sometimes Roy) (@RinoTheBeagle) January 6, 2021

And this at the link. And this link. He's a QAnoner. Hopefully, he loses every gig he has as a voice actor.

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Also arguably having blood on their hands? The Capitol Police, who had myriad reasons to be better prepared, and more proactive, than they actually were. Today's performance invites questions of political, racial and class bias.

Just in case you're wondering? The federal criminal definition of sedition very much fits the action of leading actors on Jan. 6, specifically bullet points 2 and 3. This is why, contra the admins of the official Green Party Facebook group and people like Charles Keener here, it's important to know what percentage of self-identified Greens are conspiracy-thinking enough to consider this a "psyops."